A blurb posted on Facebook by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu treats us to an oldie-but-goodie phrase right out of his Book of Babeuisms -- y'know, those phrases he's repeated over and over and over since he arrived on Arizona's political scene.

The FB message, in which Babeu strokes himself and his department over a drug-bust award, included a predictable dig against President Barack Obama's administration. He says such drug busts are "what we call clues in law enforcement [that] the border is NOT more secure than ever, as Janet Napolitano suggests!"

"Clues in law enforcement" -- that's one of Babeu's favorite sayings, and it is No. 5 in this installment of our favorite Top Five Babeuisms.

Babeu and his ex-boyfriend, Jose Orozco

He's used that phrase many times, including on April 5, when he told a Fox 10 reporter that media reports on him, including those over allegations that he threatened his Mexican lover with deportation if he revealed details of their relationship, were clues of a conspiracy against him.

Fox 10: ... do you think somebody personally got to [your Mexican ex-boyfriend] and said, "I need you to tell this story"? Because that's kind of where the gap is for me. Because is, is somebody influencing him to lie?

Babeu: There's many smoking guns. And, and I'm usually not one into conspiracy theories. But all of these things don't add up. And that's what we call clues in law enforcement. And, it's suspicious at the least. But to see everybody and their brother tryin' to push each other outta the way to get a punch in on me, you know, with, it's like, well, what else can we attack him on?

No. 4: "We're into punishment -- but not quite that much."

When talk show hosts across the country mispronounced his county's name -- calling it Penal County (as in a penal institution), Babeu offers up this line. Even when they pronounce it right, he tells them others don't -- and injects his little joke.

Hedgecock: You've been a very big national figure on a lot of these issues. We appreciate your leadership. And thanks for droppin' by! How are ya'?Babeu: It's my privilege. I'm so excited, not only to see so many people here, but a contrast couldn't be greater with men and women who believe in our Constitution, are willing to fight for it. And this is the only way that we're gonna stop this sprint down the path of socialism. Literally.

On April 5, 2012 on Fox 10:

Babeu: America, honest to God, is near financial collapse. And that if men and women of character don't stand up and fight for the future of our country, there's, there's no greater time than now. Uh, people are tryin' to literally take us down a path of failed economies of Europe, towards socialism.

Babeu: ... When our Constitution's being trampled upon, literally by our own President, when he's dragging us down a path towards socialism. When the government is the solution for everything. That, that is defying the essence of who we are as Americans, is a free market and capitalism. I shall fight that to my dying breath!

No. 2: "Frying pan in the face."

Babeu has a thing for frying pan violence

Since 2010 -- maybe earlier -- Babeu has been itchin' to whack someone, mostly President Barack Obama, in the face with a frying pan.

Babeu: Some of the best cops had gotten into trouble ...and they, they need that frying pan in the face to wake them up, to say, "There's consequences for your actions." ...Martyn: That is not an endorsement of Pinal County policy of frying pans in the face from our law enforcement.Babeu: Yeah. I use that figure of speech quite often.

Babeu: And that's what we're gonna send a message this year. I said time and time again, we're gonna take a frying pan and we're gonna smack the President in the face November 2nd and all these Democrats!

Babeu, who said America is "sprinting down the path of socialism," criticized President Obama for not coming to the border to see conditions here. "We're going to take a frying pan and we're going to smack the president in the face on Nov. 2," he said to applause.